Agile Scrum Master

Kelvin Okolo

469-***-**** adxtg7@r.postjobfree.com

Dallas, Texas 75230

Passionate, Driven, & Experienced Business Analyst

Seasoned, Innovative, Solution-oriented IT Professional with over 5 years of successful experience in the corporate domain with a proven knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), coaching and mentoring teams hybrid and remotely. Skilled in managing multiple cross functional agile teams working together to deliver functional products in a short time frame. A servant leader with experience working closely with product owners in product backlog management and continues delivery of features. Successfully guided teams to continuously release high quality software on time .

Areas of Expertise

Process Flow

Diagram Creation

Confluence

Atlassian JIRA

Draw.io

UAT Support

Requirements Definition

Python Code Testing

Visual studio Code

Epics

User Stories

MS Office Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Draw.IO

Microservices

Zoom

Team Coaching/Mentoring

Scope & Resource Management

Verbal and Written Communication

Gliffy

Requirements Traceability Matrix

Agile/Scrum Methodology

User Acceptance Testing

Identifying Risks

Business Solution Development

Business Process Mapping

Waterfall Methodology

Miro

Requirement Elicitation

Use Case Index

Use Case Diagram

Process Improvement

Subject Matter Expert

Team Empowerment

Cross Functional Teams

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Facilitation, Project Management

CI/CD-Continuous

Integration/Continuous Delivery/

Deployment

Change Impact Analysis

Linux

SQL Scripting

AWS

Test Plans and Cases

Acceptance Criteria

Business Requirements

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

Team Management,

Clear communication

RESTAPI

Microservices

Outlook

Visio

SharePoint

Data modeling

Qlik

Stakeholder Engagement

Education & Credentials

B.A. – Stephen F. Austin State University

Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance

Scrum Master Accredited Certification, International Scrum Institute

Professional Experience

Kapstack, Bladensburg, Maryland March 2021 – Present

Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Collaborates with end-user/clients to interpret their business needs and translate them into functional requirements for the application

Elicit requirements utilizing the following methods: interviews, document analysis, Joint Application

Create business process descriptions and workflow analysis

Collaborates with users to define concepts and clarify functional and non-functional requirements on a daily basis

Lead the effort to effectively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional Requirements Document, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, Process Flow Diagrams, GUI Interface designs (Mock-up screens).

Facilitates JAD sessions and requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SME), and product owners in order to fully understand business rules, processes, and system requirements for various projects

Worked independently with users to define concepts and clarify Functional and Non-functional requirements on a daily basis

Worked with end-users to interpret the customer business needs and translate them into application and Non-functional requirements

Collaborates with developers and SMEs to establish a projects' technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs

Assist in developing test plans, test cases and performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Trace the functional requirements through the stages of the SDLC to ensure that the application continues to meet the requirements that have been set forth for the project

Provide business process improvement recommendations and support the implementation of application enhancements

Administered Requirement Change Request Process (RCR) and Software Change Requests (SCR) for effectively managing all software change requests.

Collaborate with Product owner to Prioritize product backlog, groom product backlog, plan releases, and develop user stories and acceptance criteria

Manage projects throughout the SDLC using various Scrum Ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standups, sprint demo and retrospectives.

Ability to deploy applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a test and UAT environment by restoring a database snapshot, creating an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, a Relational Database Service (RDS) instance, and also creating a Security Group.

Created Data models using DrawIO and Gliffy to determine relationships between entities

involved in databases

Utilize Structured Query Language (SQL) to view and interpret application database tables, create database data models, database views, and write database joins (inner, left, right, full)

Utilize SQL to retrieve information from relational databases and ensured their reliability and performance.

Created database gap script in VI editor using SQL in Oracle database.

Act as a servant leader for your teams by facilitating the Agile process with clear communication.

Proactively solve problems for teams to succeed across scope, time, and cost dimensions, while being open, passionate and approachable.

Implemented the Agile Methodology for the purpose of ensuring high quality product delivery and continuous improvement.

Developed and documented Requirement Management Plan (RMP) and Test Cases for: User Profile Project, Promotions Validation Project, Retail Reporting Project, Retail Application Project

Stack IT Solutions, Bladensburg, Maryland June 2017 – March 2021

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Elicited requirements through facilitation of JAD sessions and requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders in order to elicit and capture and translate business requirements into functional requirements

Created Requirement Management Plans (RMP)s, Business Requirement Documents (BRD), (FRD) Functional Requirement Documents, use cases diagram, indexes, process flow diagrams, and Mock-ups for system enhancement projects using Gliffy

Conducted monthly application review meetings with end users, to gather and document business needs and translated them into an FRD

Developed Epics, user stories and acceptance criteria for functional requirements Using Confluence and JIRA

Collaborate with developers and SMEs to establish a project's technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs

Clarified issues with developers to validate application design and functional specifications to ensure that functional requirements are met

Solely tasked with the development and documentation of business requirements, functional requirements, and test cases for projects

Created Data models using DrawIO and Gliffy to determine relationships between entities

involved in databases

Collaborated with project manager to track and manage project development process utilizing the Agile methodology throughout the SDLC

Prepared meeting minutes and agendas in order to capture and summarize key issues discussed during team meetings throughout all phases of the SDLC·

Prioritizing Product backlog, planning releases, planning sprints, and driving requirements/user stories.

Developed business process documentation, supporting documentation which included policies, procedures, references, specific and general instructions, navigation manuals, user guides, job aids and related/required documentation.

Performed Tests cases to test Application performance and validation

Provided Business Analysis support and process improvement recommendations and supported the implementation of application enhancement.

Utilize SQL to retrieve information from relational databases and ensured their reliability and performance.

Utilize Structured Query Language (SQL) to view and interpret application database tables, create database data models, database views, and write database joins (inner, left, right, full)

Analyzed opportunities to improve and enhance applications

Utilized Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy application by restoring a database

snapshot, creating an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, a Relational Database Service (RDS)

instance, Security Groups, and configuring a PHP application.

Assisted in triaging user requirements and troubleshooting issues encountered during testing

Assisted in developing test cases, user acceptance testing, test plans, test scripts and system

integration testing and leading testing

Helped create, improve and introduce new Extraction Transformation Loading (ETL) systems to

allow data to be sent in JSON format through API communications for Sales Reporting for clients.

Soft Skills

Organizational Skills

Coordination Skills

Communication Skills

Customer Service Skills

Leadership Skills

Collaboration

Analytical Skills

Conflict Resolution Skills

Ability to Multitask

Management Skills

Interpersonal Skills

References Available Upon Request

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